

In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

Susanna Drake Shawnessy

John Wickliff Shawnessy

Nell Gaither

Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles

Orville 'Flash' Perkins

Garwood B. Jones

Ellen Shawnessy

T.D. Shawnessy

Barbara Drake

Bobby Drake

Ezra Gray

Niles Foster